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January 23  - January 29 , 2000
      THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR

The Boston Area Physics Calendar is published weekly during the academic
year by the Center for Theoretical Physics at MIT.  You may send your
announcement by e-mail (bapc@lns.mit.edu) or FAX (617-253-8674).  We cannot
accept announcements by telephone.  Entries should reach us no later than
11:00 a.m. the Monday of the week preceding the week of the event.  ENTRIES
RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.
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Monday, January 24, 2000
Monday, January 24,2000 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Monday, Research Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics Bldg 6 3rd fl Seminar room
``Low Energy Dynamics of 1/4 BPS dyons"
Professor Choonkyu Lee
Seoul National University

Monday, January 24,2000 4:00PM
Boston University
Astrophysics Seminar Series
Astronomy Conf. Rm, Rm 500, 725 Commonwealth Ave.
``Starburst Anatomy: New Data-New Paradigms"
William Waller
Tufts University
Coffee and Cookies served at 3:45pm

Monday, January 24, 2000, 4:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear Physics Special Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics Bldg 6 3rd fl Seminar room
``Charged Particle Ratio Fluctuations as a QGP Signal"
Sangyoung Jeon
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.


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Tuesday, January 25,2000
Tuesday, January 25, 2000, 12 noon
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar- Special Seminar
Lyman 425
``Probing Pairing Symmetry in Sr2RuO4"
Hae-Young Kee
UCLA

Tuesday, January 25, 2000, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear Physics Special Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics Bldg 6 3rd fl Seminar room
``Witten's global SU (2) anomaly on the lattice"
Oliver Baer
DESY
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Wednesday, January26, 2000
Wednesday, January26, 2000, 4:30PM
Boston College
Department of Physics Colloquium*
*Orgainized jointly with the Dept. of Chemistry
Gasson Hall, Room305
Characteristics of Electrospinning and Electrospun Products"
Dr. Heidi Schreuder-Gibson
US Army SBCC
Coffee served at 3:45p.m. Higgins Hall, Room 354

Wednesday, January 26, 2000, 12 noon
Harvard University
High Energy Seminar
HEP Lab, 42 Oxford Street
``On the road to measure CKM angles alpha and gamma:
Observation of hadronic b -->u transitions"
Yongsheng Gao
Harvard University
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Thursday, January 27, 2000
Thursday, January 27, 2000, 12 noon
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Lyman 425
``Strong and weak tunneling into fractional quantum
Hall edges"
Joel Moore
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Thursday, January 27, 2000, 4:00PM
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Scientific Colloquium
Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street
``Pulsars in Globular Clusters"
Dr. Fred Rasio
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tea served at 3:30p.m.

Thursday, January 27, 2000, 4:00PM
Northeastern University
Physics Colloquium
114 Dana Research Center
``String Theory and Black Holes"
Professor Andrew Strominger
Harvard University
Refreshments served at 3:45 pm

Thursday, January 27, 2000, 4:00PM
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
``From SYM perturbation theory to
 closed strings in Matrix theory"
Micha Berkooz, Princeton University
Refreshments at 3:30 in HET Commons

Thursday, January 27, 2000, 3:45PM
Boston University
Colloquium
Center for Space Physics, College of Arts and Sciences Room 500
725 Commonwealth Avenue
"Plasma irregularities in Equatorial Spread F"
Professor David Hysell
Clemson University, Clemson, SC